Auralic Aries vs Aurender X100 vs Melco N1Z

[amabrok]

Good writeup amabrok!  Now I am more interested in N1A.  My friend who both auditioned N1A and X100 found even N1A is better than X100 in terms of sound quality.

Thanks Umetaro!

While i expect the N1A to deliver comparable sound quality performance, let us not forget that the N1Z is the flagship of Melco and as such even if the N1A manages to deliver the same quality it will still suffer from the same shortcoming in terms of setup and operation. and i think it is hard to trade off reliable operation for a marginal SQ improvement,